Contraceptive methods are like putting a premium on vice. It makes men and women reckless... As it is, man has sufficiently degraded woman for his lust, and [contraception] , no matter how well meaning the advocates may be, will still further degrade her.

My life has been full of external tragedies and if they have not left any visible effect on me, I owe it to the teaching of the Bhagavadgita.

What is wanted is a deliberate giving up of violence out of strength.

The field of research in the doctrine of civil resistance is necessarily limited, as the occasions for civil resistance in a man's life must not be frequent.

Without satyagraha carried out in the proper spirit, there is no victory, no Swaraj.

Ours is a civil fight, and imprisonment as a civil prisoner has got to be earned by the strict observance of the programme.

If you would swim on the bosom of the ocean of Truth, you must reduce yourself to a zero.